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Chicago, IL, US

Vernon Hills, IL, US

• Responsible for CDW's cybersecurity consulting services practice with 80+ team members focused on security program assessments and transformative projects addressing Data Protection, Data Security, Zero Trust, virtual.
• Delivered $20M in business across five teams while expanding services by initiating data protection program positioning our go-to-market strategy for data protection services and product implementation solutions.
• Managed seven senior leaders, coaching directors and managers to deliver organization excellence by delivering high-value services, coaching for performance, and executing effective selling strategies.
• Guided establishment of data security program with strategic partners focused on cryptography delivering services for PKI strategy and HSM implementations, with services of approximately $500K in first six months with.
• Drove top-down financial initiatives providing clarity for financial metrics and profitability while also improving the staffing strategy leveraging offshore resources, resulting in improved profitability of.

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Ran North American security services responsible for security program consulting, penetration testing, security product engineering, identity access management, and strategic staffing services. Oversaw services.
• Restructured identity and access management practice to expand and improve quality of delivery, including adding a dedicated operations manager, additional presales resources and implemented several initiatives to.
• Deployed strategy to support accelerated services sales and focus on emerging technologies such as SailPoint and Okta resulting in a record number of $1M engagements for IAM in 12-month period.
• Expanded implementation services by growing services partner community, allowing us to leverage partners to implement cybersecurity technology solutions leading to average 16% growth per year of technical.

Skokie, Illinois, US

• Oversaw the companies’ services professional growth, defining the services strategy, building out the organization, and taking them from less than zero to greater than $25M in delivered services. A holistic set of.
• Led $30M security services program transformation at healthcare organization, implementing three-year security plan that built out their overall program, including governance, architecture, and implemented security.
• Provided executive sponsorship to accounts and sales team for Fortune 500 clients, supporting significant projects from rapid security remediation for M&A scenarios to large-scale identity and access management projects.

Skokie, Illinois, US

• Grew team using an elastic resourcing approach that included over 50+ full-time resources and partner services from the security vendors and from strategic boutique providers.
• Drove streamlined process for automatically attaching services at point of sale to ensure ease of sale, adding millions to overall security services, primarily for firewall business.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Developed target market approach, sold and delivered security and IT risk management solutions. Directed a team of professionals, developed marketing strategies, scheduled and led projects, managed relationships with.
• Performed IT due diligence services for transaction services team.
• Provided IT risk assessments and internal audits to healthcare, capital markets, banking and manufacturing organizations in the greater Chicagoland area.
• Designed and implemented custom control environments including governance processes based on COBIT for compliance with Sarbanes Oxley.
• Performed security and overall IT risk assessments measuring current risk against expected risk and identifying solutions improving overall IT effectiveness.
• Wrote and implemented IT policies and procedures including security standards improving the overall security posture of the organization.

New York, NY, US

• Co-founded and developed the Technology Risk Management practice in the Chicago office. Wrote business plan and developed a strategy to successfully grow revenues requiring talent acquisition that increased the.
• Sold over 1M in business to major healthcare insurance provider for financial and security systems analysis and internal audit outsourcing.
• Designed new methodology and created tools for several service lines, such as security and privacy assessments (HIPAA and GLBA), IT risk assessments, Sarbanes Oxley controls, system and application security reviews.
• Consulted on the American Express security summit discussing with the CISO the overall security strategy, program, budget and next steps.
• Wrote Business Intelligence roadmap and strategy including data integrity and security approach for national financial advisory organization.
• Performed financial and security systems analysis over their ERP application of a major healthcare insurance provider reducing their reliance on manual controls by effectively mitigating the risk with automated controls.

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• Served Fortune 1000 companies in financial and IT risk, compliance and consulting capacity. Consistently achieved an exemplary client satisfaction rating leading teams delivering risk management services. Developed.
• Performed financial auditing, including substantive testing and business cycle documentation.
• ,Executed IT risk analysis over IT operations and applications for over 50 clients to assess overall risk to financial statement reporting and business operations.
• Completed business cycle controls, IT general controls and segregation of duties review on ERP applications including SAP, PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards.
• Drafted SAS 70 control narratives and managed and performed testing for business cycle and IT control objectives. Wrote attest opinion and report, wrote letter to management outlining gaps and recommending solutions.
• Managed the outsourced IT Internal Audit function for several organizations performing both integrated audits and IT audits. Integrated audits covered key financial processes including purchasing, financial close.